Tom keene is away and no doubt he would like to talk about this, the redhead blind across the bloomberg with continuing eu trade talks year coming from a spokesperson. Lisa, you asked about deadlines. According to the lease latest deadlines, what do we do about trade talks . Lisa i love that you say the tomo want to talk about this, the implication being that you will not. Thats a very, very not subtle subtext here as you talk about what is a deadline, after all. Jonathan he is of course are chief exit correspondent and he will be interested in the headlines, as will many in the u. K. They are rolling up continuing trade talks next year with the Prime Minister engaging with a phone call with the Commission President later on today. Thats the story for the markets. Otherwise not paying much attention to this whatsoever. The rest of the world has been focused on the headlines around the pandemic. Its a record high in the s p right now. Record high and the nasdaq. In the nasdaq we had eig
Harder to provide treatment to people with serious symptoms. This is the right time to issue a red alert. Its a declaration of an emergency in medical care. Our First Priority will be protecting life the governor says the occupancy of the prefectures hospital beds set aside for serious cases is expected to soon reach 70 . On top of the call for people to stay home, officials plan to extend their requests for bars and restaurants to close early until december 15th. Officials here in tokyo reported 533 new cases on thursday. To date, the number of people who have tested positive in tokyo has exceeded 42,000. 54 are currently in serious condition. Tokyos hospitals have 150 beds for serious cases. The metropolitan government is asking them to increase that to 200. Officials say they want to prevent the spike in severe covid19 cases from affecting treatment for other diseases. Theyre also asking medical institutions to allocate more beds to coronavirus cases that are not serious. Authoritie
Calling for the fact that these stockmarkets had gone too far, too fast. The darlings of 2020 finally took the hit. Apple, amazon. Tesla. Gain ondia, the biggest the s p this year. Companies, along with energy, lead us into that fall. Were you the naysayer . Joe ive been predicting this since april 1. My predictions finally vindicated. But it was just so intense. We talked about this yesterday. You had Huge Companies jumping every day. This is like the reversal that we got. Energy had a bad week. Infotech down on the week. The only gainers, materials and utilities. Financials also outperforming. That really is the story. Really hot sectors finally got sold. You have such incredible moves. It is not surprising even if that is a disappointing cliche. Romaine it looks like some of this could have been related to how short a lot of institutional managers and hedge funds and investors were. You are talking about 23 straight weeks where hedge funds had been short s p futures. The latest data
This photo sent by les carr. Lets look at live conditions. This is our camera on top of our studio in jack london square, looking out towards San Francisco. You cant even see the city there in the distance. Some are describing the key is as having a post apocalyptic look. Here is another camera at sfo. The sky appears more gray than orange. Flights have not been affected by all of the ash in the air we are told. And finally a live camera in the east bear on highway 24 in laugh fayette, looking toward walnut creek. Our view from mount diablo has been obscured. You cant even see it, for the past three weeks now. Lets go for more on this s bill, weve all been talking, never seen anything like it. No, this is, in our tenure, definitely, julie, this has been unprecedented. I saw something similar to this, like i mentioned earlier, when Mount Saint Helens blew in 1982 in eastern washington. The skies looked like this. But that was a major, massive volcano. I mean, the smoke from these fires
Bazaar, surreal, ominous, how would you describe it . This day was different. Good evening, im julie haener. It was crazy, julie. Im frank somerville. Just when you thought 2020 might run out of surprises we are created with one of the most bizarre days in memory. Im 62, grew up in the bay area and never seen anything like it. Headlights on noontime, ash falling from the sky and body clocks wrist disrupted. For some, a sense of being completely out of sync. The dark sky during the daytime had folks grabbing their cameras. Ktvu was flooded with pictures from our viewers. Photographer kevin shane sent this picture from the embarcadero in San Francisco. And john warren sent this this picture from the Golden Gate National conservancy. It was taken on alcatraz island. You can see there is San Francisco completely disappearing in the background. And karen keller sent us this picture from hillsboro with trees creating silhouettes against the backdrop. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief